Wow, the goodness here is many-fold.
1) Elon just breezed through all the sensors and capabilities. His message was very directly: "We have all the sensors we need to do whatever. software will follow" He sounded like he couldn't deign to list all the things it could do, the lane changing, ACC, tactile feedback, self parking". You could just here him think yada, yada, yada robot car, totally does whatever you can imagine. I mean, the only limitation he alluded to was the laws. There MUST be some other limitation, right? but if it can park in a garage, that is crazy. I have a tight spot with junk in every direction; if it can park itself in there it can do anything.
2) Elon just created the big CPO market (as others have said). He is cruelly
using us crazy people as a revenue source. For every owner that upgrades, they will send a used Model S down market, into the hands of a grateful buyer, and sell a new Model S at a higher gross margin. He might as well have just announced a money printing machine.
3) Demand will go through the roof. Wait times will get silly. Fine. Silence the demand critics.
4) This will create a whole new SLEW of media attention. The problem with stories about the model S in the past, is that its principle demonstrable feature is that it was super quick off the mark and had a front trunk. After that it was nebulous notions of charging at home that not everyone gets. NOW there will have to be countless print and video stories outlining all these cool new features. What can they do? What does this mean for the timetable of autonomous driving. This is HUGE in the zeitgiest.
Ok, taking breaths now.
